We are missing the most important thing. If we switch over to metric time there will be no way to use the hour and minute hands on a clock to figure out which direction is north. How could we live without that when all the gps birds drop from the sky when we send them instructions using metric time instead of normal time.
As providers start building location based services into their handsets, it will only be a matter of time until the phones will keep track of the places they recieve poor/no coverage and report back to the companies. I wouldn't mind my phone using some of it's batteries to help build out a network.
There has been some argument if Verizon really has a 3G network. The minimum requerment for 3G is 144kbps while moving and if you go by that, verizon does meet the minimum requirements. Now that is the low end of 3G and the high end of the verizon network, so even if it is 3G on paper, in the real world I wouldn't give it more that a 2.75G's. We are getting closer.
If you hold your phone up to your computer speakers after you enter your number, the computer will play the tone and your phone will dial that number. Go ahead, give it a try.
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Someone to compete against may do NASA and it's funding some good. I'm all for the exploration, and the sooner I can take vacations there, the better.
We are missing the most important thing. If we switch over to metric time there will be no way to use the hour and minute hands on a clock to figure out which direction is north. How could we live without that when all the gps birds drop from the sky when we send them instructions using metric time instead of normal time.
Do you really want to be working for a company that you have threaten to leave before you can get a pay raise?
Just something to think about....
David
As providers start building location based services into their handsets, it will only be a matter of time until the phones will keep track of the places they recieve poor/no coverage and report back to the companies. I wouldn't mind my phone using some of it's batteries to help build out a network.
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David
There has been some argument if Verizon really has a 3G network. The minimum requerment for 3G is 144kbps while moving and if you go by that, verizon does meet the minimum requirements. Now that is the low end of 3G and the high end of the verizon network, so even if it is 3G on paper, in the real world I wouldn't give it more that a 2.75G's. We are getting closer.
Davie
If you hold your phone up to your computer speakers after you enter your number, the computer will play the tone and your phone will dial that number. Go ahead, give it a try.
I have a KDS Valiant and have the same problem running X. So far I have tried mandrake 8.0 and redhat 7.1 with no luck.